Deccan

Deccan (Dakshin, 'the south'), a term applied sometimes to the whole of the Indian peninsula south of the Vindhya Mountains, which separate it from the basin of the Ganges, and sometimes restricted to that portion of the same which is rather vaguely bounded on the north by the Nerbudda, falling into the Gulf of Cambay, and on the south by the Kistna or Krishna, flowing into the Bay of Bengal. Independently of this indefiniteness of meaning, the name, like that of the Carnatic (q.v.), is rather of historical interest than of actual use.